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Racism and the Second Amendment (with Carol Anderson)

Racism and the Second Amendment (with Carol Anderson)

Now & Then · CAFE

July 12, 202245m 14s

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Show Notes

What are the origins of the Second Amendment? And what can America’s painful racial history illuminate about our national relationship to guns? 


On this special Live Taping of Now & Then, Heather and Joanne talk to Carol Anderson, professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America


The trio discuss how the recent spate of mass shootings — and Supreme Court decisions striking down gun control measures in liberal-leaning cities and states — echo the longstanding inequalities embedded in American gun ownership. 


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